| Dolichocebus | |
|---|---|
| Skull cast of a specimen collected inChubut province,Patagonia,Argentina. At theAMNH. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Family: | Cebidae |
| Subfamily: | Cebinae |
| Genus: | †Dolichocebus Bordas, 1942 |
| Species: | †D. gaimanensis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Dolichocebus gaimanensis Kraglievich, 1951 | |
Dolichocebus is anextinctNew World monkeygenus that lived inArgentine Patagonia (Sarmiento Formation) from about 21 to 17.5 million years ago during theEarly Miocene (Colhuehuapian in theSALMA classification).[1][2] Thetype species isD. gaimanensis.
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